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The Angola Horror

The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads

By:
Charity Vogel

Narrated by:
J.M. Ross

Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
20

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
19

Story

4 out of 5 stars
19

On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound
New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers